My second book, Listen to This (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador, Fourth Estate/HarperCollins), offers a panoramic view of the musical scene, from Bach to Björk and beyond. In the Preface, I say that the aim is to "approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere but as a way of knowing the world." I treat pop music as serious art and classical music as part of the wider culture; my hope is that the book will serve as an introduction to crucial figures and ideas in classical music, and also give an alternative perspective on modern pop. Listen to This includes material already published in The New Yorker as well as pieces written or heavily revised for the occasion. The first chapter, from which the title comes, appeared in the magazine in 2004. The second chapter, "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," is entirely new—a rapid-moving history of music told through bass lines. The third chapter, "Infernal Machines," weaves together various thoughts on music and technology. And it goes from there, touching on Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, Cecil Taylor, and a dozen others. At the back of the book is a 4000-word survey of recommended recordings. The audiobook version, which I recorded myself, contains more than thirty musical selections. Translations are available from Bompiani in Italy (Senti questo), Seix Barral in Spain (Escucha esto), Companhia das Letras in Brazil (Escuta só), and Actes Sud in France. The book has won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music writing and the 2015 music-book prize from the Syndicat de le Critique, and was a runner-up for the PEN Art of the Essay award.